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OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. Learn More. Start Mapping. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
The mosaic map depicts an area from Lebanon in the north to the Nile Delta in the south, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Eastern Desert. It contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The map dates to the sixth century AD.
The Babylonian Map of the World or the Imago Mundi is the oldest known world map ever discovered. The map dates to sometime in the 6 th century BCE and was created by the Babylonians and shows how they viewed both the physical and spiritual world at the time.
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.
The Babylonian Map of the World is considered the oldest world map as the map depicted the known world at the time. The areas on the map are labeled and the clay tablet also contains a short and partially lost description written in cuneiform.
5 dni temu · Click the old map and see it superimposed over the site’s smooth Google Maps-like surface. OldMapsOnline also launched an interactive feature called TimeMap. Users can home in on a part of a ...
Browse and view places with timeline, compare historical maps to see the evolution of a place. The easy-to-use getaway to historical maps in libraries around the world.
